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This crab farms bacteria on its own arms
The yeti crab Kiwa puravida grows bacteria on the bristles of its claws near seafloor methane seeps. The microbes use chemical energy to make organic matter,…
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Epic Games sued Apple over a mandatory thirty percent app store tax that extracts billions from developers
On iOS, developers had to sell through Apple’s app store to reach users. Apple collected a 30% commission on sales, and Epic took that fee to court.
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Palace of Knossos relied on massive ceramic pithoi jars to hoard olive oil and survive Bronze Age crises
The palace’s storerooms held hundreds of man-sized pithoi filled with olive oil, wine, and grain. Those reserves let rulers redistribute supplies and support…
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Michael Maier hid alchemical ascension blueprints inside bizarre engravings of vomiting toads and golden eggs
Maier’s book paired 50 cryptic engravings with poems and musical fugues. Readers were meant to meditate on surreal scenes, such as a toad drawing juices from…
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Why Rust servers are regularly wiped clean
Large groups in Rust can hoard resources and raid smaller bases, so developers periodically wipe servers, resetting players’ progress and giving everyone a…
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The Matterhorn resort that keeps private cars out
Zermatt restricts ordinary private cars, so visitors generally leave them in Täsch and continue by train. Electric vehicles handle much of the traffic inside…
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Why creating a perfect Sim can change how you see yourself
Building a flawless Sim can turn a wish into something you can see: confidence, success, a life with every rough edge edited out. You may start treating the…
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Can smelling essential oils help restore your sense of smell
Smell training gives the brain repeated chances to connect a scent with its identity. Sniffing familiar odors such as lemon, rose, and eucalyptus twice a day…
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The freighter that brings supplies—and tourists—to the Marquesas
The Aranui 5 carries cement, sugar, and pickup trucks to the remote Marquesas while taking passengers ashore to see volcanic peaks and ancient tiki statues.
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A single psychedelic session eased end-of-life fear
In a small Johns Hopkins study, a supervised high-dose psilocybin session, combined with psychological support, brought lasting relief from anxiety or…
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An electrical implant can help treat rheumatoid arthritis
A vagus-nerve implant sends pulses into a pathway that helps regulate inflammatory signaling. In 2025, the FDA approved the SetPoint System for certain adults…
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The unsolved TV hijacking by a Max Headroom mask
In 1987, someone in a Max Headroom mask hijacked two Chicago TV broadcasts, and the culprit was never caught. The intruder reportedly overpowered the…
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The Etruscans held lavish banquets beside the dead
They believed food offered at a tomb nourished the dead and connected the living to the afterlife. In Tarquinia’s Tomb of the Leopards, painted diners recline…
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Some harbor pilots arrive on moving ships by helicopter
The arriving pilot is a maritime specialist who helps guide the ship through local waters. A helicopter can lower that specialist onto a suitable deck while…
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Manila Galleon captains routinely smuggled undeclared Ming silk across the Pacific to dodge harsh Spanish taxes
Spanish rules limited how much cargo Manila Galleons could carry to Acapulco, but demand for Chinese goods offered a strong reason to bend them. Merchants and…
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Isaac Luria convinced Safed mystics that God exploded into trapped sparks that humans must manually rescue
Luria taught that God contracted to make room for creation, but the vessels holding divine light shattered, scattering sparks into the material world. In his…
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The ghost kitchens built inside cheap industrial spaces
A customer never needed to find a table at Travis Kalanick’s kitchens: the restaurants existed only for delivery. He put multiple food brands in cheap,…
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A bone-marrow transplant gave one man HIV-resistant immune cells
Leukemia treatment replaced Timothy Ray Brown’s blood-forming cells with marrow from a donor whose rare CCR5-delta32 mutation left many immune cells without a…
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Fallout 3 puts your actions on the radio
The DJ Three Dog's broadcasts could change according to players' actions under the game's Karma system, interrupting the music to report on towns destroyed or…
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Why Sekiro flashes a red warning before danger
The bright red kanji cuts through the sparks and fast swordplay, warning you to react before an enemy’s attack lands. You still have to recognize whether to…
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The Croatian resort where war-ravaged hotels meet the sea
The hotels were once a resort for Yugoslav military elites, including Josip Broz Tito, before the 1991 Croatian War of Independence left them in ruins. Today,…
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Invisible beams sent electricity a kilometer
In a 2022 demonstration, the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory transmitted power over about a kilometer using microwaves. A receiving array called a rectenna…
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The skull on The Silence of the Lambs poster hides seven women
The skull is a 1951 photograph called In Voluptas Mors, conceived by Salvador Dalí and shot by Philippe Halsman. Seven naked women posed together to form the…
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Why Pac-Man once had human legs
When Midway adapted the game for North America in 1980, artists misread the yellow character and gave him long, muscular legs and red boots on the arcade…
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